St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-06
NEAT, BUT NOT GAUDY.
The Members Of the Lower House of the
Dakota Legislature Get Button
Hole Bouquets,
Provided by the Ladies Who Wished to
See Female Suffrage Given Legal
Recognition.
However, Flowers Failed 10 Save the
B1Il--Moore Cracks an Old
Chestnut.
Death OF Col. Scott, Formerly of the
Military Academy at Fari-
bault, Mimi.
Special to the Globe.

-@'A~A1sSHAs
talker, presumably futile, editor of Man.
dan paper, in conversation with a Mime
apolls reporter few days ago, yanked
Representative Greene over the Goals for
working for a bill that has passed the coun-
Gil and Is now before the house, providing
for the division of Willard county and an
neXlng the fraction to Stark and Billings
counties. He claims Mr.. Greene Is county
deStructloniSt, and his bill if passed will
oDlterate several unOrganiZed counties and
give them up to cattle rings. The facts re-
gardlng THIS matter, as given by Mr.. Greene,
are that TWO years ago q scheme was con-
cOcted and rushed through towards the close
of the session defining the boundaries of
the county OF Willard, with Belfield as the
prospective county seat
THE SCHEME
was in the interest of Mandan syndicate
and they are the men who are now kicking
because the unorganiZed county is being set
back. 1t was taken from Billings and
Stark counties without consulting these
counties. The tax due Willard county lies
IN the territorial treasury and cannot be
used by anybody under the present state of
affairs. There IS no prospect that the
county would be organized in the next ten
years, population having decreased from 100
two years ago to less than thirty, and they
would not stay there if they were able to
get out. The country is beyond the agri-
cultural districts, and as the county has no
organization it is better for the people to
keep out of it. Gov Church has sent to
the council his
NOMINATIONS
for the office Of superintendent of public
instruction and his assistant. His choice
was, for superintendent, Eugene A. Dye
OF Mellette. Sphinx county: for assistant
FRANK a. Wilson, Bathgate. Mr.. Dye is
an organizer of well known ability. He
came from the East several years ago and
has taught school in the West for long
time, and has been superintendent OF
| schools in Sphinx county for three years.
lie has i'll that time organized them. He
comes well recommended and is Demo-
crat, though he has never takan any active
part III politics. Frank A. Wilson, his as
slstant Is editor of the Bathgate Democrat,
and will be remembered as the man who
| fought Grlggs for the appointment of rail-
road commissioner and got left. He is
Democrat, and two years ago contested q
seat in the council with Jud La Moure and
got KNOCKED out. In secret sessi on to-day
the council confirmed the appointments of
| the governor on the boards of trustees and
regents OF the school OF deaf mutes at
| Sioux Fails, the YanktOn insane asylum
| ana the normal school at Madison. If a
stranger had walked into the house of rep
resentatiyeS this afternoon he would have
thought that he had accidentally stumbled
| on convention of the Amalgamated Order
| OF
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DUDES.
1t was woman suffrage day and local
florist had left on the desk of each member
bouttonaire, which subsequently rose and
fell on their manly boSoms. They were q
| Spruce-l looking body of men in these Orna-
ments thrown down to them from the hand
OF nature. and each man looked several
| inches taller and Il degree Straighter when
he rose to talk back at the speaker. Moore,
OF Sully. the oldest member of the house
and champion of the cause of woman
suffrage. looked twenty years younger as
he pranced around the hall OIL dress parade
before the admring eyes of the women
with whose interests and rights he had
identified himself. He had discarded the
! blue flannel shirt laced at the neck with
| sllken cord, which he has worn throughout
! the session. for q linen affair spotted with
tiny butterflies and topped off with stiff,
intrusive collar that gouged his chin and
caused him to hold his head so high up that
| it pervaded him with an air of great I'M
| p0rtance. Adams and White were left.
Some one had appropriated the flowers in
| tended for their punishment, but each man
was handsome enough to attract attention
without the aid of floral decorations and
they murmured not. Irresistible
TOM ELLIOTT, IN BEADED NoCCASINs.
stepped about four feet up in the mir when
he waltzed through the lobby, hero in the
| eyes OF every pretty woman in the blossom
| ing aisle Of female auditors. The bill that
| had drawn this audience to the capitol was
| Wards, No. 1856. and provided that women
over the age of 81 years be allowed to vote
on questions of temperance ana education
in all county, town and municipal elections.
At IS o'clock the house went into committee
of the whole to consider this measure as a
special order. Jones, of Charles Mix. Oc-
cupied the chair, and faced throng of
| strong minded women and advocates of
! their cause without Il tremor. Ward opened
| the ball by moving that the cOmmitte recon-
mend that the bill pass i'll its present form.
| AS a substitute DR.. Stewart moved that it
| be indefinitely postponed. From that time
until $50 the advocates of the bill never
saw minute when they were on top. 1t
was a hot and interesting battle of words
on the side of the aggressOrS, with no OBJ
ject but to afford amusement for the look
erS on. Fletcher unbound his eloquence
and
QUOTED POETRY
and rallied against the question according to
the manuscript he had prepared for the
occasion, and succeeded in getting nearly
every lady in the house, both friends and
enemies of the bill, down on him. His ar
gument was without point but II was a
clever hanging together of brilliant adject-
ives and borrowed phrases. He pointed the
finger of dersion at the women who labored
! in the factories OF the East, and insHuated
that they could not be pure and honorable
under the circumstances which surrounded
them. He sawed the air wildly with his
arms and shook his fists at the ladies' and
was at last called to order by several MEM
! bers. who claimed that he was not discuss
| ing the bill under consideration. lndomita-
BILE Shook, of Minnewaukah, lost his head
| in the sea of enthusiasm that tossed about
| the house and fought the bill Savagely. He
| howled and stamped until he could be heard
in the Saskatchewan valley. He eulogized
his wife and babies, and declared that he
was unanimously against any law that
gave his wife the right to the ballot box
and compelled him to stay at home and
play wet nurse. Everybody shouted and
everybody applduded. Mentzer, the Mitchell
fighter loomed up loaded to the muZZle and
shot wads of electrified argument north,
east south and west. He is not married
man, but said he wanted to go on record as
being opposed to the bill on general priEci-
pies. He argued that if the bill was passed
BY the legislature it would be null and void,
for according to the organic act, women